South Korea Eases Rules
To Allow Use of BlackBerry

By

Evan Ramstad

Updated May 12, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

Seoul, South Korea

South Korea is creating an exception in its rules so that BlackBerry devices can be sold by its largest cellular carrier -- a crack in one of the most closed and expensive cellphone markets in the world.

Government regulators said this weekend they approved a plan by SK Telecom Co. to sell BlackBerry devices starting...